Beginner's Guide

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The Beginner’s Guide is a list of recommended pages to help Titan newcomers navigate the Titan manual.

1. Brief Primer on Graph Databases: Introduction to graph databases in particular and databases in general
2. The Property Graph Model: The data model used by Titan
3. Getting Started: A simple step-by-step guide to setting up and using Titan
4. The Benefits of Titan: Why you should consider using the Titan graph database
5. Titan's Core Interface: How to manipulate and navigate a Titan graph
6. Gremlin Query Language: How to query a Titan graph database
7. Rexster Graph Server: How to expose a Titan graph as REST/binary endpoint
8. Transaction Handling: How to handle transactions and concurrent users
9. Titan Storage Backends: How to choose the optimal storage backend
10. Titan Indexing Backends: How to choose indexing backends to provide geo, full-text, and numeric range search
11. Big Graph Data Presentation: Big picture presentation on large-scale graph processing of which Titan is one part.